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Flashcards by Astha Parmar, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Astha Parmar
almost 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| accent | the manner in which people speak and the way words are pronounced in different parts of the world |
| Esperanto | a made-up Latin-based language, which its European proponents in the early twentieth century hoped would become a global language |
| extinct language | a language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used |
| isolated language | a language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family |
| lingua franca | a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different languages |
| orthography | the study of where languages are found/located |
| pidgin | a form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca; used for communications among speakers of two different languages |
| toponym | the name by which a geographical place is known |
| trade language | a language used by native speakers of different languages to allow them to communicate so they can trade with each other |
| vernacular | the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) |
| language | a system of communication through speech, a collection of sounds that a group of people understands to have the same meaning |
| literary tradition | a system of written communication |
| official language | one language used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects, such as road signs, money, and stamps |
| dialect | a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation |
| isogloss | a word-usage boundary |
| standard language | a dialect that is well-established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, business, education, and mass communication |
| language family | a collection of languages related to a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history (e.g. Indo-European) |
| language branch | a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed thousands of years ago |
| language group | a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary |
| ideograms | characters that represent ideas or concepts, not specific pronunciations |
| mono-linguality | speaking only one language |
| bi-linguality | speaking two languages |
| multi-linguality | speaking several languages |
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